Charlton Heston
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Charlton Heston (October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American actor of film, theatre and television. Heston is known for heroic roles in films such as The Ten Commandments, Planet of the Apes and Ben-Hur, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Heston was also known for his political activism. In the 1950s and 1960s he was one of a handful of Hollywood actors to speak openly against racism and was an active supporter of the Civil Rights Movement. Initially a moderate Democrat, he later supported conservative Republican policies and was president of the National Rifle Association from 1998 to 2003.
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- Born:
- Oct 4, 1923 In Wilmette, Illinois, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 129
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Dark City 1950-10-17
- Latest Project:
- Movie Yul Brynner, the Magnificent 2020-12-02
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Yul Brynner, the Magnificent | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2020-12-02 |
| Movie | I Am Richard Pryor | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2019-03-12 |
| Movie | Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2019-04-14 |
| Movie | Hail Satan? | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2019-04-17 |
| Movie | Todos los nombres de Sara | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2019-12-15 |
| Movie | The Madding Crowd | Self (archive footage) | 2017-02-01 |
| Movie | Bienvenido Mr. Heston | Self (archive footage) | 2016-11-25 |
| Movie | Spanish Western | Self (archive footage) | 2015-05-04 |
| Movie | Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2014-09-20 |
| Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
| Movie | Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2014-12-12 |
| Movie | Charlton Heston and Ben-Hur: A Personal Journey | Self (archive footage) | 2011-07-14 |
| Movie | Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff | Self – Interviewee | 2010-05-05 |
| Movie | 2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift | (archive footage) | 2010-08-03 |
| Movie | AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition | Self (archive footage) | 2007-06-20 |
| Movie | De Madrid a la Luna | Self (archive footage) | 2006-10-24 |
| Movie | Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema | Self (archive footage) | 2005-09-13 |
| Movie | Remembering Reagan at His Ranch | Host | 2004-06-22 |
| Movie | Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self (archive footage) | 2004-07-25 |
| Movie | My Father | Josef Mengele | 2003-09-01 |
| Movie | Christmas in Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | 2003-11-13 |
| Movie | Bowling for Columbine | Self - NRA President | 2002-10-09 |
| Movie | Edith Head: The Paramount Years | (archive footage) | 2002-11-26 |
| Movie | Town & Country | Mr. Clayborne | 2001-04-27 |
| Movie | The Order | Professor Finley | 2001-05-05 |
| Movie | Cats & Dogs | The Mastiff (voice) | 2001-07-04 |
| Movie | Last Party 2000 | Self | 2001-11-02 |
| Movie | Planet of the Apes | Zaius (uncredited) | 2001-07-25 |
| Movie | Yesterday's Tomorrows | Self | 1999-08-09 |
| Movie | Forever Hollywood | Self | 1999-01-01 |
| Series | Camino de Santiago | Professor Marcelo Rinaldi | 1999-12-04 |
| Movie | Any Given Sunday | AFFA Football Commissioner | 1999-12-22 |
| Movie | Behind the Planet of the Apes | Self - 'Taylor' | 1998-09-05 |
| Movie | Armageddon | Narration (voice) | 1998-07-01 |
| Movie | Gideon | Addison Sinclair | 1998-10-26 |
| Movie | Hercules | Narrator (voice) | 1997-06-13 |
| Movie | Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western | Self | 1997-07-27 |
| Movie | The Dark Mist | Narrator (voice) | 1996-01-01 |
| Movie | Alaska | Perry | 1996-08-14 |
| Movie | Love in Hollywood | Self | 1996-12-08 |
| Movie | Hamlet | Player King | 1996-12-25 |
| Movie | The Avenging Angel | Brigham Young | 1995-01-22 |
| Movie | In the Mouth of Madness | Jackson Harglow | 1995-02-03 |
| Movie | Texas | Narrator | 1995-04-16 |
| Movie | Charlton Heston: For All Seasons | Self | 1995-03-20 |
| Movie | Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects | Self | 1994-05-22 |
| Movie | The Legacy of Malthus | Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage) | 1994-01-01 |
| Movie | Charlie Sheen's Stunts Spectacular | Self (archive footage) | 1994-06-30 |
| Movie | True Lies | Spencer Trilby | 1994-07-15 |
| Movie | Wayne's World 2 | Good Actor | 1993-12-10 |
| Movie | The Mystery of the Sphinx | Narrator | 1993-11-10 |
| Movie | Tombstone | Henry Hooker | 1993-12-25 |
| Movie | Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 | Captain Al Haynes | 1992-02-24 |
| Movie | Solar Crisis | Adm. "Skeet" Kelso | 1992-08-06 |
| Movie | Noël | Narrator | 1992-12-03 |
| Movie | Air Force One: The Planes and the Presidents | Host and Narrator | 1991-01-01 |
| Movie | The Crucifer of Blood | Sherlock Holmes | 1991-11-04 |
| Movie | Almost an Angel | God | 1990-12-21 |
| Movie | Treasure Island | Long John Silver | 1990-01-22 |
| Movie | The Little Kidnappers | James MacKenzie | 1990-08-17 |
| Movie | Call from Space | Alien (voice) | 1989-01-01 |
| Movie | Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary | Self | 1989-09-24 |
| Movie | Original Sin | Louis Mancini | 1989-02-20 |
| Movie | A Man for All Seasons | Sir Thomas More | 1988-12-21 |
| Movie | Proud Men | Charley MacLeod Sr. | 1987-10-01 |
| Movie | The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal | Self | 1986-07-31 |
| Movie | Directed by William Wyler | Self | 1986-05-01 |
| Series | The Colbys | Jason Colby | 1985-11-20 |
| Movie | Nairobi Affair | Lee Cahill | 1984-01-01 |
| Series | Chiefs | Hugh Holmes | 1983-11-13 |
| Movie | Mother Lode | Silas McGee / Ian McGee | 1982-08-06 |
| Movie | The Mountain Men | Bill Tyler | 1980-06-01 |
| Movie | The Awakening | Matthew Corbeck | 1980-07-09 |
| Movie | Gray Lady Down | Captain Paul Blanchard | 1978-03-10 |
| Movie | The Prince and the Pauper | Henry VIII | 1977-06-03 |
| Movie | The Last Hard Men | Sam Burgade | 1976-04-22 |
| Movie | Two-Minute Warning | Capt. Peter Holly | 1976-11-12 |
| Movie | Midway | Capt. Matthew Garth | 1976-06-18 |
| Movie | Airport 1975 | Alan Murdock | 1974-10-18 |
| Movie | The Four Musketeers | Cardinal Richelieu | 1974-10-31 |
| Movie | Earthquake | Stewart Graff | 1974-11-15 |
| Movie | Soylent Green | Detective Robert Thorn | 1973-04-18 |
| Movie | The Three Musketeers | Cardinal Richelieu | 1973-12-11 |
| Movie | The Special London Bridge Special | Tennis Player | 1972-01-01 |
| Movie | Antony and Cleopatra | Marc Antony | 1972-03-18 |
| Movie | The Call of the Wild | John Thornton | 1972-11-30 |
| Movie | Skyjacked | Capt. Henry 'Hank' O'Hara | 1972-05-24 |
| Movie | The Omega Man | Robert Neville | 1971-08-01 |
| Movie | The Hawaiians | Whip Hoxworth | 1970-06-17 |
| Movie | Beneath the Planet of the Apes | Taylor | 1970-04-23 |
| Movie | King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis | Self (archive footage) | 1970-03-24 |
| Movie | Julius Caesar | Marc Antony | 1970-06-04 |
| Movie | Number One | Ron "Cat" Catlan | 1969-08-21 |
| Movie | Rowan & Martin at the Movies | Self | 1968-01-01 |
| Movie | Planet of the Apes | George Taylor | 1968-02-07 |
| Movie | Will Penny | Will Penny | 1967-12-19 |
| Movie | Counterpoint | Lionel Evans | 1967-12-22 |
| Movie | Khartoum | Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon | 1966-06-09 |
| Movie | The Greatest Story Ever Told | John the Baptist | 1965-04-09 |
| Movie | Uncertain Verification | (archive footage) | 1965-04-30 |
| Movie | Major Dundee | Major Amos Charles Dundee | 1965-04-07 |
| Movie | The Agony and the Ecstasy | Michelangelo | 1965-09-16 |
| Movie | The War Lord | Chrysagon | 1965-11-17 |
| Movie | 55 Days at Peking | Maj. Matt Lewis | 1963-05-06 |
| Movie | The Pigeon That Took Rome | Captain Paul MacDougall / Benny the Snatch / Narrator | 1962-06-19 |
| Movie | Diamond Head | Richard 'King' Howland | 1962-12-27 |
| Movie | El Cid | El Cid Rodrigo de Vivar | 1961-10-24 |
| Movie | The Wreck of the Mary Deare | John Sands | 1959-11-17 |
| Movie | Ben-Hur | Judah Ben-Hur | 1959-11-18 |
| Movie | Touch of Evil | Ramon Miguel Vargas | 1958-03-30 |
| Movie | Fun in the Big Country | Self | 1958-01-01 |
| Movie | The Big Country | Steve Leech | 1958-09-30 |
| Movie | The Buccaneer | Gen. Andrew Jackson | 1958-12-11 |
| Movie | The Ten Commandments | Moses | 1956-10-05 |
| Movie | Stars of Cabaret | Self (archive footage) | 1956-01-01 |
| Movie | Three Violent People | Capt. Colt Saunders | 1956-12-01 |
| Movie | The Far Horizons | Lt. William Clark | 1955-07-04 |
| Movie | The Private War of Major Benson | Maj. Bernard R. 'Barney' Benson | 1955-08-02 |
| Movie | Lucy Gallant | Casey Cole | 1955-10-20 |
| Movie | The Naked Jungle | Christopher Leiningen | 1954-03-03 |
| Movie | Secret of the Incas | Harry Steel | 1954-06-06 |
| Movie | Bad for Each Other | Dr. Tom Owen | 1953-12-24 |
| Movie | Pony Express | Captain William Frank 'Buffalo Bill' Cody | 1953-06-15 |
| Movie | The President's Lady | Andrew Jackson | 1953-05-21 |
| Movie | Arrowhead | Ed Bannon | 1953-08-03 |
| Movie | The Greatest Show on Earth | Brad Braden | 1952-02-16 |
| Movie | The Savage | James 'Jim' Aherne Jr. / War Bonnet | 1952-09-01 |
| Movie | Ruby Gentry | Boake Tackman | 1952-12-25 |
| Movie | Dark City | Danny Haley | 1950-10-17 |